[Ocfs2-devel] [patch] ocfs2: potential ERR_PTR dereference on error paths

Dan Carpenter error27 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 22 02:39:29 PDT 2010


If "handle" is non null at the end of the function then we assume it's a
valid pointer and pass it to ocfs2_commit_trans();

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27 at gmail.com>

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
index 07cc8bb..ae8e161 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
@@ -558,6 +558,7 @@ static int ocfs2_truncate_for_delete(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
 		handle = ocfs2_start_trans(osb, OCFS2_INODE_UPDATE_CREDITS);
 		if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
 			status = PTR_ERR(handle);
+			handle = NULL;
 			mlog_errno(status);
 			goto out;
 		}



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